Access to information, as it accelerates production of knowledge and technology, is the fundamental component in the evolution of human society and improvements of human lives in general, but there clearly must be a limit to the types of information one should be able to access to.
Elaboration
Access to information, in other words the preexisting knowledge, is evidently the very first step one must take in order to create new knowledge and technologies. However, gaining more information and learning new knowledge has the potential to cause social chaos depending on the content of the information and areas of potential application.
Examples/Evidence
Galileo Galilei could prove the heliocentric universe because and only because he had access to the Copernicus' previous hypothesis and supports for the heliocentric universe. September 19th, 2011, a 53 years old man named Nicholas Smith was captured after he threatened neighbors with the napalm-type bomb he made with the instructions from the internet.
Explanation/Analysis
Galileo's case demonstrates how access to information ultimately leads to progress in a research in science or technology by encouraging people to pursue research on the certain issue and by helping the researchers by allowing them to skip the previously completed researches. On the other hand, Nicholas Smith's case is a clear example which shows, as the access to information was the fundamental cause itself, how access to information may lead to a destructive effect on the community.
Link sentence
As the internet is being more widely available quickly, people in the world are exposed to information whether they can handle or not. Though the exposure to massive amount of information is accelerating positive changes in the world quickly, a lot of people like little uneducated children, curious teenagers and Mr. Smith are abusing the information. The question here shouldn't be whether there should be a limit or not, but where the limit should be.
Believing that most students will use privacy as one of their defenses, I plan not to.
Access to information, as it accelerates production of knowledge and technology, is the fundamental component in the evolution of human society and improvements of human lives in general, but there clearly must be a limit to the types of information one should be able to access to.
Access to information, in other words the preexisting knowledge, is evidently the very first step one must take in order to create new knowledge and technologies. However, gaining more information and learning new knowledge has the potential to cause social chaos depending on the content of the information and areas of potential application.
Galileo Galilei could prove the heliocentric universe because and only because he had access to the Copernicus' previous hypothesis and supports for the heliocentric universe. September 19th, 2011, a 53 years old man named Nicholas Smith was captured after he threatened neighbors with the napalm-type bomb he made with the instructions from the internet.
Galileo's case demonstrates how access to information ultimately leads to progress in a research in science or technology by encouraging people to pursue research on the certain issue and by helping the researchers by allowing them to skip the previously completed researches. On the other hand, Nicholas Smith's case is a clear example which shows, as the access to information was the fundamental cause itself, how access to information may lead to a destructive effect on the community.
As the internet is being more widely available quickly, people in the world are exposed to information whether they can handle or not. Though the exposure to massive amount of information is accelerating positive changes in the world quickly, a lot of people like little uneducated children, curious teenagers and Mr. Smith are abusing the information. The question here shouldn't be whether there should be a limit or not, but where the limit should be.
Believing that most students will use privacy as one of their defenses, I plan not to.